- GROSSES CONCERT-STUCK, (Pièce de Concert,) Op. 47, composé par MAYSEDER, arrangé par CHARLES CZERNY. (Wessel and Co.)
- DUET on a DANISH MELODY, composed for two performers, by FRED. KULAU. (Wessel and Co.)
No. 1 is the work noticed above, as arranged for a single performer. We like it better in its present form, for the parts are more dispersed, and the melody comes out more distinctly. The upper part of this is very difficult, but the lower is easy, the duet therefore will very well suit an elder and younger sister, or two players whose musical advancement is unequal.
No. 2 is Kulau’s Recollections of Odensee, in two quick, pleasing, and very practicable movements. We will not answer for the airs being, bonâ fide, of Danish origin, but whatever their birth-place, they are lively, pretty, and the superior master often peeps out while he means to be only simple and familiar.
- QUADRILLE sur des motifs de HEROLD, de l’opéra Zampa, arrangée par HENRY LEMOINE. No. 1. (Wessel and Co.)
- No. 2, Ditto. ditto. ditto.
SOME of the best subjects from an opera which has been too much lauded on the continent, are here arranged in an easy but effective manner.
ORGAN.
SELECT ORGAN PIECES, from Masses, Motets, and other sacred works of MOZART, HAYDN, BEETHOVEN, CHERUBINI, PALESTRINA, and other classical composers of the German and Italian schools, arranged by VINCENT NOVELLO. Nos. 31 to 36. (A. Novello.)
WHAT the preceding numbers of this work contain, we have had no means of judging, having only received those now under notice, and must confine ourselves to them. By means of very close engraving, twenty-two pieces are included in these numbers, principally from Haydn’s and Mozart’s sacred compositions, but some few are by Novello, Portogallo, and Bonno. We are not among those who think that the Masses, &c. of Haydn and Mozart are, taken altogether, equal to their secular works; many of them, we are persuaded, would never have been published by the consent of the composers, but parts of them make very good organ pieces. These Mr. Novello has culled, and, with his well-known ability, converted them to a very useful purpose. He certainly calculates his adaptations for superior organists, and is not sparing of notes. Sometimes there will be found too many, by second-rate performers; and we take the liberty to mention to Mr. N. that in the country, nay even in the metropolis, are several respectable organists, very well qualified to do the duty of parish churches, who think his arrangements too much crowded for ordinary players, and too full of harmony for country congregations.